The photography fairthe oldest show dedicated specifically to the medium, will celebrate its 43rd edition in April 2024 with a return to Park Avenue Armory in New York, organizers say. Organized by the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (Aipad), the fair is open to applications only from member galleries.
“The Park Avenue Armory has always been the favorite haunt of our members, collectors and curators,” Aipad executive director Lydia Melamed Johnson said in a statement, adding that the organization has “evolved after Covid with a renewed sense of optimism and vitality and a thriving membership of young galleries offering new perspectives on the medium”.
The Park Avenue Armory on Manhattan’s Upper East Side will host Aipad’s fair, The Photography Show, in 2024 Photo by James Ewing, courtesy of Park Avenue Armory
The fair was previously held at the Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street and Park Avenue from 2006 to 2016. The event moved to Pier 94 in Hell’s Kitchen in 2017, where it was held until 2019. After the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the fair was held at Center415 in Midtown Manhattan in 2022 and 2023. Last year, the Photography Show hosted 44 galleries at the fair.
Aipad’s new president, Martijn van Pieterson, said the sprawling armory on Park Avenue will give the fair more space for galleries to attend. Aipad says between 70 and 80 galleries will be able to participate in next year’s edition, similar to the number of exhibitors at other fairs held at the Park Avenue Armory, such as Tefaf New York and the Art Dealers Association of America fair, The art exhibition.
Originally built as the headquarters of a militia regiment made up of many members of New York’s social elite during the American Civil War, the sprawling neo-Gothic building is now leased to the nonprofit arts organization Park Avenue Armory Conservancy, which works to support art, music and performance in the Armory’s 55,000 square foot drill hall and historic Golden Age rooms.
